1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,240 Speaker 1: Welcome to the I Heart Radio and Coast to Coast, 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: a m paranormal podcast network. Now get ready for another 3 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: episode of Strange Things with Joshua P. Warren. Welcome to 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: our podcast. Please be aware of the thoughts and opinions 5 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,600 Speaker 1: expressed by the host are their thoughts and opinions only 6 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 1: and do not reflect those of I Heart Media, I 7 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:25,599 Speaker 1: Heart Radio, Coast to Coast, AM employees of premier networks, 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 1: or their sponsors and associates. We would like to encourage 9 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,639 Speaker 1: you to do your own research and discover the subject 10 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 1: matter for yourself. Get ready to be amazed to find 11 00:00:54,520 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: a wizard of weird. This is Strange Things, right. I 12 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:10,759 Speaker 1: am Joshua pe Warren, and each week on this show, 13 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,759 Speaker 1: I'll be bringing you brand new mind blowing content, news, exercises, 14 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 1: and weird experiments you can do at home, and a 15 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: lot more. And on this edition of the show, I 16 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:27,199 Speaker 1: want to share with you some strange stories that helped 17 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: to inspire the direction of my life as a professional 18 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 1: paranormal investigator. This goes way back for me, back to 19 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 1: when I was a teenager. I grew up in the 20 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: mountains of Asheville, North Carolina. That's where I was born 21 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 1: and raised. I was always an unusual kid. I started 22 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 1: writing my first published book when I was fourteen years old. 23 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: By the time I graduated high school, I had published 24 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: three books. I wrote for the local newspaper. I also 25 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: had a column and the school newspaper called Strange but True, 26 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 1: pretty basic Ripley's believe it or not kind of stuff. 27 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 1: And I guess around the time I was working on that, 28 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 1: I started really enjoying this concept of just sort of 29 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: off beat, strange, esoteric subjects, and I got this idea 30 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: to create a book called Speaking of Strange. And if 31 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: that sounds familiar to you, it is because that years 32 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: later I would actually create a radio show called Speaking 33 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 1: of Strange, and the name of the show came straight 34 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 1: from the name of the book, and um, of course 35 00:02:56,120 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: that ran for many, many years on the station there 36 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 1: in Asheville, UH News Radio five seventy do w w 37 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:11,639 Speaker 1: U n C. And however, the book Speaking of Strange 38 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 1: was published in nineteen ninety four and it's subtitled Residents 39 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: of the Western North Carolina Mountain's Tale of their Encounters 40 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 1: with the Unexplained. So this is different than the other 41 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 1: two books I published. When I was in high school, 42 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:34,360 Speaker 1: in middle school and all that. I published my first 43 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 1: when I was I guess in middle school and um, 44 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 1: then the other two in high school. The first book 45 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: I wrote was a book of fictional scary short stories 46 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: and poems. And then the other book that I wrote 47 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: was a book. Uh that was a nonfiction book about ghosts. 48 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: But this book is an anthology. I decided to collect 49 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 1: stories from people all over my region about just strange 50 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 1: stuff that has happened to them, not necessarily creepy. I mean, 51 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 1: trust me, I I said, it's it's wide open. Tell 52 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 1: me about ghosts and UFOs and big foot and weirdo 53 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 1: experiences that are are are traditionally paranormal, but feel free 54 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:19,920 Speaker 1: to open your mind. Let's get into the strangest territory possible. 55 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,559 Speaker 1: And not everything has to have a neat little ending 56 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:25,359 Speaker 1: that we tied together at the end with the boat, 57 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 1: you know. And so what I did was travel around 58 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:36,719 Speaker 1: my region and I primarily put posters up at uh well, 59 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:40,159 Speaker 1: wherever there was a bolton board, but mainly bookstores seemed 60 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 1: like a good match. You know, people who go to bookstores, 61 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: they're literate and they're into that sort of thing, so 62 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 1: maybe they would feel more inclined to write an experience 63 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: they've had and send it to me. So I put 64 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 1: posters all over town. I may have run an ad 65 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 1: in one of the local papers, I don't remember, but 66 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 1: I didn't do a heck of a lot considering the 67 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 1: enormous surge of mail that flooded into my mailbox. And 68 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 1: it was wonderful, and so I realized very quickly, this 69 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 1: is not gonna be hard at all. And so sure 70 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 1: enough I went through and I typed up these stories, 71 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,039 Speaker 1: and I got permission from everybody and edited them, and 72 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 1: UH hired Tim Peterson, my good buddy, to illustrate it. 73 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:29,279 Speaker 1: And before you know it, boon, we had this book 74 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: called Speaking of Strange. It came out, it was a 75 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 1: big seller. And now, however, the book is out of 76 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 1: print because unfortunately I ended up having a problem with 77 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 1: the publisher back in the day, and we we had 78 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:42,599 Speaker 1: some disagreements about things, but we got it worked out. 79 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 1: We're all cool now, and actually maybe someday this book 80 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 1: would come back into print. But I realized the other 81 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: day that I don't even have a copy of this book, 82 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:53,279 Speaker 1: at least here at my place in Vegas. And it's 83 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: so rare that I kind of keep an eye out 84 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 1: for it once in a while, and it popped up 85 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: on eBay, and uh so I bought it. So I 86 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:04,280 Speaker 1: have this copy of Speaking of Strange in my hands, 87 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: and it at the bottom it says mountain ghosts, haints 88 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: and other unexplained happenings. Now, if you don't know what 89 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:15,160 Speaker 1: I haint is, that's why a lot of the old 90 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 1: timers and the Appalachian Mountains referred to as well a 91 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:23,239 Speaker 1: hot a ghost. So a ghost is a haint, mountain ghost, 92 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 1: haints and other unexplained happening. So I guess ghosts and 93 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:28,720 Speaker 1: haints could be a little redundant, but anyway, Haints is 94 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: like a haunted place. So I'm just going to read 95 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:36,920 Speaker 1: to you some of the stories that I collected. And 96 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:40,919 Speaker 1: I enjoyed doing this so much that again, this is 97 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:43,279 Speaker 1: one of those things that solidified the direction that my 98 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 1: life would take. So I did this book called Speaking 99 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:48,599 Speaker 1: of Strange, and then I did a radio show called 100 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: Speaking of Strange, and now I'm hosting this podcast called 101 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 1: Strange Things. So I have a wonderful relationship with this 102 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: word strange, and uh, I encourage it and I adore it. 103 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna flip through here, and you're never 104 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 1: gonna know exactly where the story is going. I I 105 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 1: want to set it up for you like that. They're 106 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 1: all fairly short. And I actually wrote a foreword to 107 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 1: this book, and I'm not going to read that, but 108 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 1: I put this quote at the beginning of my foreword. 109 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 1: It's a quote by Mark Twain. Quote of course truth 110 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 1: is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense end quote. 111 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 1: By the way, my friend Murray, the magician here in 112 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 1: Las Vegas, said that he is related somehow to Mark Twain. 113 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: I don't think he realized the true significance of that. 114 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 1: Mark Twain was just such a literary giant. What's interesting 115 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: about Murray's He's from Canada. So anyway, I'm just gonna 116 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 1: start reading these and if we run into a rake, 117 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: than I'll pause and I'll come back after the break. 118 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 1: This first one was sent to me by Julie Bush Candler, 119 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: North Carolina. She wrote, it happened in New York on 120 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 1: a beautiful sunny day. Spring had come at long last, 121 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,239 Speaker 1: the carnival had come to our neighborhood. And I must 122 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 1: have been around eight or nine. My cousin Eddie was 123 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 1: with me. He was a year older than me, and 124 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 1: we spent our weekends together exploring the wilds of the 125 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 1: concrete jungle. How a child loves a carnival, and I 126 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 1: was no different than any other. We had been having 127 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,880 Speaker 1: a great time on the rides and playing those carnival 128 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 1: games that kids have so much playing until our money 129 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 1: ran out. There was a park nearby, and I thought 130 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: to myself how beautiful the green grass looked, and the 131 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: leaves back on the trees where they belonged. I love 132 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 1: that season. It just makes me feel so good. It 133 00:08:56,679 --> 00:08:59,959 Speaker 1: was fun being outside and playing without all those heavy 134 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: winter close. Such a lovely day for a carnival. The 135 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,679 Speaker 1: breath of spring was in the air. We wanted to 136 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,839 Speaker 1: keep on having fun, but we needed money. We had 137 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: run out. I told my cousin that we should go 138 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: to the park, kneel down and pray to Jesus that 139 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 1: he give both of us more money so that we 140 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 1: could keep on having fun. We went and we both 141 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: kneeled down, closed our eyes and pray to Jesus. My 142 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: prayers always started out, please Dear Jesus, and then I 143 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 1: would pray. When I finished my prayer, I told my 144 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:42,440 Speaker 1: cousin to start digging and we would find money. Where 145 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: I was kneeling, I started digging. I had found a 146 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 1: spot with soft dirt and it was easy to dig. 147 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 1: I immediately found a huge pile of change. Thank you, 148 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: Dear Jesus, I said. I started yelling to Eddie, who 149 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: was about twenty feet away. I found it. I found it. 150 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 1: He didn't find any, but that was okay. What I 151 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: had found was enough for both of us to finish 152 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:14,599 Speaker 1: out that beautiful spring day at the carnival. It was 153 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:17,840 Speaker 1: a day that I would never forget. It was a 154 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 1: day that my angel wanted me to keep on having. 155 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: I won a piggy bank and got home at dark. 156 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:31,199 Speaker 1: My mom was upset because we were late. I told 157 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 1: her what had happened, but until this day, I don't 158 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 1: think that she ever believed me. Isn't that a sweet 159 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 1: little story from Julie Bosh of Candler. She didn't mention 160 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 1: what year that took place. And again, this book was 161 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 1: published in ninety four, and so you know a lot 162 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: of the people who wrote stories were probably up there 163 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:56,800 Speaker 1: in years themselves at the time, so that may have 164 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 1: been a long time ago. So indeed, um let's see here, 165 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:04,560 Speaker 1: we're gonna sort of bounce in all over into different 166 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:06,840 Speaker 1: subject matter. But you know, one thing I want to 167 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 1: mention to you about the story I just read is 168 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:12,439 Speaker 1: it's interesting to me how many people want to wish 169 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:16,560 Speaker 1: or pray for money and they say I want a 170 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: million dollars. That's usually what they say, I want a 171 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: million dollars. I got an email yesterday from a guy 172 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:27,560 Speaker 1: who said, I want a wishing machine and I want 173 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:30,719 Speaker 1: to program it to get a hundred million dollars. That's 174 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:34,080 Speaker 1: what he said, hundred million dollars. But you know what, 175 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 1: why don't you think more about what you need right now, 176 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: right what you need right now? Like like she did. 177 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:42,079 Speaker 1: She thought, you know what, I just want to have 178 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 1: a good day today, and I want to have enough 179 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 1: money so we can enjoy a fun experience here at 180 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 1: the carnival. And sometimes if you're a little more realistic 181 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 1: and you you just say, look, I don't need to 182 00:11:56,679 --> 00:11:59,079 Speaker 1: own five mansions and two yachts and all that to 183 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 1: be happy. Let's just take this steps and let's look 184 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 1: at what I need right now that's right in front 185 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:07,839 Speaker 1: of me, and let's focus on that. And if you're 186 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 1: kind of reasonable, then you can accrue whatever you need 187 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:16,520 Speaker 1: whenever you need it. But that is a lesson from 188 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:19,319 Speaker 1: the mind of the child that all of us need 189 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:23,560 Speaker 1: to remember even as an adult, no matter how stressful 190 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:30,439 Speaker 1: it may get for you sometimes financially. 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I am 221 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:15,880 Speaker 1: your host, the Wizard of Weird, beaming into your worm 222 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: whole brain from my studio and since city, Las Vegas, Nevada, 223 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 1: where every day is golden and every night is silver. 224 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: When I was putting together this anthology back in nine 225 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 1: called Speaking of Strange, this regional book, I even was 226 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 1: able to get some stories from some of my teachers 227 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: in high school. One of them was my English teacher, 228 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 1: Mr Boyles, David Boyles, and you know what, he and 229 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:53,080 Speaker 1: I are still friends, were still in touch. He's retired 230 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 1: from teaching now, but he is still writing books and 231 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 1: poems and all kinds of stuff like that. And uh, 232 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 1: he also throws the coolest Halloween party in Asheville, North Carolina, 233 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 1: or the general Asheville area. Every year, everybody's fighting over 234 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: an invitation to David Boyle's Halloween party. He's one of 235 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 1: those guys who goes over the top, spends months preparing, 236 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:24,600 Speaker 1: and when you go there, it's like you have arrived 237 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:29,120 Speaker 1: at a theme park. So here is the story that 238 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 1: he contributed to the book. David Voyles from Swanna Noah, 239 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 1: North Carolina. He wrote, Actually, I like animals, I really do, 240 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 1: even cats, But somehow I prefer the company of dogs 241 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: to cats. Cats have that sneaky quiet quality about them 242 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 1: that gives people reason to believe that they actually could 243 00:16:56,120 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 1: be companions too. Whiches and devils, as the old folks 244 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 1: tells so wisely, tell us. Let's say you hear the 245 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:09,440 Speaker 1: crash of your pattern antique china hitting the floor where 246 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 1: moments before your cat had been investigating. When you pop 247 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 1: your head through the doorway wild eye to see what happened, 248 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 1: you'll only see your feline friends sitting calmly several feet 249 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 1: from the scene of the crime, tail wrapped around itself, 250 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 1: paul poised in midair, apparently only temporarily distracted from its bathing. 251 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 1: Who will turn to you, blink slowly, and resume it's 252 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:40,400 Speaker 1: licking as if nothing had happened. Obviously a devious, if 253 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:45,840 Speaker 1: not downright demonic being. On the other hand, a dog 254 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 1: who has dislodged your china from the shelf, perhaps because 255 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:52,200 Speaker 1: it suddenly found the ivy pattern and bossed in its 256 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:55,639 Speaker 1: shiny surface to be a mortal threat to you, would 257 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:59,200 Speaker 1: be profoundly wagging its tail, frequently turning its head from 258 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:02,920 Speaker 1: the shattered piece is to your horrified gaze, expecting praise 259 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:08,120 Speaker 1: for its daring deed. A stupid creature, maybe, but one 260 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: that is definitely of this earth. Since you know my 261 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:17,159 Speaker 1: philosophical observations about the nature of dogs and cats, perhaps you, 262 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:21,360 Speaker 1: like me, will find it strange that the only supernatural 263 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: experience I ever had involved a dog, a very typically 264 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:29,679 Speaker 1: dumb dog at that. I have always wanted one of 265 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 1: those dogs like you used to see in the old 266 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:34,879 Speaker 1: Disney movies, you know the kind I mean. Those dogs 267 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:37,919 Speaker 1: never dug up the rhododendron bushes five minutes after you 268 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 1: have spent seven long, back breaking hours planting them. They 269 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:44,919 Speaker 1: never barked in the middle of the night, unless it 270 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,439 Speaker 1: was when robbers were trying to break into your house 271 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 1: or when the neighbor's little blind child had fallen down 272 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 1: the well. And they never, and I repeat, never went 273 00:18:54,119 --> 00:18:56,919 Speaker 1: to the bathroom on the brand new Persian carpet in 274 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:00,639 Speaker 1: the living room. Somehow, I have never owned a dog 275 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:03,920 Speaker 1: like that. The dogs in my life have have always 276 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 1: chewed up every new pair of shoes, eyeball marked constantly 277 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:11,399 Speaker 1: throughout the night, every time the slightest breeze blue. And 278 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:13,639 Speaker 1: as to the persian rug, well, I don't want to 279 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:20,200 Speaker 1: talk about that and the disgusting things they dragged home. Maggie, 280 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:24,400 Speaker 1: a lovable but not particularly bright pound puppy we adopted, 281 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 1: was no exception. As a matter of fact, she was 282 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 1: the rule. She loved to root about in the neighbors 283 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:35,560 Speaker 1: trash and bring me her newly found treasures. As a result, 284 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 1: I found myself the recipient of used diapers, garbage bags 285 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:45,879 Speaker 1: filled with someone else's garbage, no less, and finally, even 286 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:51,960 Speaker 1: a hog's head. My wife and I live in the country, 287 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:56,120 Speaker 1: and one of our neighbors has live stock, including pigs. 288 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 1: I suppose that one hot number day he had slaughtered 289 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: a hog and deposited the incredible Excuse me, the inedible 290 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: remains not far from our house. As I happened to 291 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 1: glance out the window of the study where I was working, 292 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 1: I noticed that Maggie had been amusing herself with unusual concentration, 293 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 1: considering her rather limited attention span, by playing with an 294 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:28,120 Speaker 1: unfamiliar object. Now I hadn't had not given it any 295 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 1: real fought until my four year old son came in 296 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 1: and said, Daddy, there's a pig face in the yard. 297 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 1: Imagine my delight at finding the freshly decapitated head of 298 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: a rather large hog on my sidewalk. I quickly got 299 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:46,960 Speaker 1: a shovel, carried the hogs head to a steep hill 300 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,240 Speaker 1: on the edge of our property, and pitched it over 301 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:51,880 Speaker 1: the barbed wire fence, where it rolled down a ravine 302 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:57,200 Speaker 1: to its final resting place, or so I hoped. About 303 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: a week later, when we had guests visiting us for weekend, 304 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:04,360 Speaker 1: we all awakened to a rather unpleasant odor drifting into 305 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 1: the house from the windows which had been open to 306 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:11,120 Speaker 1: allow in that wonderful cool mountain air. We had suffered 307 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,639 Speaker 1: from nocturnal visits from a family of skunks before, but 308 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 1: this smell was even more revolting. The mystery of its 309 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 1: origin was solved, though, when my son reported, Daddy, the 310 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:28,679 Speaker 1: pig faces back. Now you can easily imagine how that 311 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 1: hogs had looked after lying in the hot summer sun 312 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,680 Speaker 1: for a week, And if you know anything about dogs, 313 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 1: you can probably also imagine who was standing proudly over it, 314 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 1: tell wagging as if to say, look what I found. 315 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 1: I fetched my shovel and gas mask, had my son 316 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 1: take Maggie inside the house and hope that she would 317 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 1: be distracted from her new toy, and gave the hogshead 318 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:58,600 Speaker 1: another heave ho over the fence, hoping it would be 319 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 1: the last time I saw it. Several months later, however, 320 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: I returned home from work and found the cleanly preserved 321 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 1: skull of a hog facing me on the top of 322 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 1: our front steps. I swear the empty eye sockets were saying, 323 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 1: I thought you'd get rid of me. Huh. Maggie was 324 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:27,159 Speaker 1: clearly obsessed with this particular possession, and I felt I 325 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 1: would have to take special measures to ensure that she 326 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:34,919 Speaker 1: didn't hurt herself by chewing off sharp shards of the 327 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 1: bone which might stick in her throat. Once again, I 328 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 1: had my son keep Maggie indoors while I carried the 329 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 1: skull off with shovel in hand. This time I dug 330 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 1: a hole in the woods and buried the skull in it. 331 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:56,879 Speaker 1: Apparently the burial of the skull worked, Maggie never brought 332 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:01,400 Speaker 1: the skull up to the house again. Unfortunately, however, her 333 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 1: bad habit habit of sniffing around the neighbor's trash, eventually 334 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: caught up with her. And as you probably know, dogs 335 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 1: will lick any old, disgusting thing they happened to come across, 336 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 1: from rotting hogs heads to use baby diapers. You might 337 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 1: want to think about that the next time Rover gives 338 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:25,639 Speaker 1: you a friendly lick. Anyway, I'm sorry to say that 339 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:29,160 Speaker 1: Maggie must have licked up some poison, because she showed 340 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,680 Speaker 1: up sick one evening and died a few hours later. 341 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:37,200 Speaker 1: I buried her on the edge of our property with 342 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:40,639 Speaker 1: a few of her doggy toys, sadly shaking my head 343 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 1: as I thought of how appropriate it would be if 344 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:52,119 Speaker 1: her favorite toy, the pig Face, was with them. A 345 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:54,879 Speaker 1: few days later, as I was driving up my long 346 00:23:55,119 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 1: curved driveway, I glanced fondly over towards Maggie's grave, action 347 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:05,959 Speaker 1: that had become a daily ritual. I noticed something white 348 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 1: standing out in direct contrast with the brown patch of 349 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 1: dirt which marked her grave. Curious, I stopped the truck 350 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 1: and walked over to inspect it. You might guess what 351 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 1: I saw sitting on that mound, as if someone had 352 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 1: carefully placed it there. That's right, a hog's skull. I 353 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:37,919 Speaker 1: guess Old Maggie was determined that she was going to 354 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:48,399 Speaker 1: keep that prize after all. That's a weird story, huh, 355 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:53,200 Speaker 1: David Voils, he called it Maggie in the Pig Face. 356 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 1: An illustrator Tim Peterson put a little cartoon of a 357 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 1: pig looking at a dog, and and the dog looking 358 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 1: at the pig, and their little hearts floating around the 359 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:13,960 Speaker 1: two of them. Uh, what do you think what category 360 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:17,200 Speaker 1: to stuff like that go into. I mean, we're talking 361 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:23,159 Speaker 1: about real, physical, tangible stuff. It's not like we you know, 362 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:28,119 Speaker 1: you see some phantom that vanishes the glides away, or 363 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: some UFO overhead that shoots off into the distance, or 364 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:36,639 Speaker 1: some creature that just sort of morphs into the bushes 365 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,680 Speaker 1: and trees. I don't know, real stuff like this happens 366 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: all the time. That was but don't you think that's cool? 367 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 1: My English teacher wrote that. I even have a story 368 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:54,359 Speaker 1: here that my little sister Jessica wrote, And my sister 369 00:25:54,760 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: is six years younger than me, and so she can 370 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,240 Speaker 1: tributed to this book. And I don't even know if 371 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 1: she would still remember this experience. It's called the Spirit 372 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 1: of Easter. And I tell you what. We have to 373 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:14,159 Speaker 1: take a break soon, so um, i'll read this to 374 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 1: you when we come back. It has to do with 375 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:22,959 Speaker 1: a haunted toy. Yeah, a haunted toy. Those stories are 376 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,439 Speaker 1: always interesting and creepy. Oh yeah, and here's this is 377 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 1: a very strange one. Um. Yeah, this is actually very 378 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:38,719 Speaker 1: fitting one about well, an encounter with a person or 379 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 1: was it? Yeah, this is good stuff. Okay, Well, let 380 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 1: me remind you if you like these kinds of things, 381 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 1: you can always get in touch with me easily. 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I'm your host, 425 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 1: Joshua Pete Warren, and this is the show where the 426 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:15,960 Speaker 1: unusual becomes usual. Yeah. My little sister, Jessica, my only sibling, 427 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 1: is six years younger than me. And here is what 428 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 1: she contributed to my book, my anthology published in nine 429 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:31,160 Speaker 1: called Speaking of Strange Residence of the western North Carolina 430 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:36,600 Speaker 1: Mountains tell of their encounters with the unexplained. Jessica Warren 431 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 1: of Asheville, North Carolina wrote, watch out the Easter bunny 432 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:48,120 Speaker 1: may leave spirited presence. A while back. As an Easter present, 433 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 1: my aunt sent me an ordinary blue toy rabbit which 434 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 1: could play music. I placed the rabbit on my dresser 435 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 1: where it would not be disturbed. However, one night, about 436 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,480 Speaker 1: a week after I had gotten it, I awoke to 437 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,440 Speaker 1: the sound of its chirpy tune in the darkness of 438 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:11,440 Speaker 1: my bedroom. I had not been around it all day, 439 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:15,600 Speaker 1: yet it began to play on its own. It wasn't 440 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:21,360 Speaker 1: only annoying, but creepy. Well after that, from time to time, 441 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:25,959 Speaker 1: the bunny you would just start itself up again for 442 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:29,480 Speaker 1: no reason. It would play its ghostly tune as if 443 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 1: it possessed the mind of its own. Eventually I had 444 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,440 Speaker 1: to place the bunny in my basement to gain peace. 445 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:42,360 Speaker 1: But still even now I wake up in the night 446 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:48,400 Speaker 1: sometimes to hear its eerie melody creeping up from the 447 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:55,960 Speaker 1: empty basement below. M M. I wonder if she still 448 00:31:56,040 --> 00:32:01,800 Speaker 1: has that haunted bunny somewhere. I could use it right 449 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 1: these days. Put it in my collection of spooky haunted 450 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,920 Speaker 1: things that I do plan to put back on display someday, 451 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:16,880 Speaker 1: probably here in Las Vegas. So there you go. It 452 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,720 Speaker 1: runs in the family. Here's a story that I thought 453 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:25,280 Speaker 1: was especially fitting for a book like this by Let's see. 454 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 1: This was sent to me by Greta Shelton, who lived 455 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:32,000 Speaker 1: in Asheville, North Carolina. She wrote, I was a child 456 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 1: in the nineteen fifties, and those days hoboes still rode 457 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,479 Speaker 1: the box cars and begged for food at the doors 458 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:43,560 Speaker 1: of houses in my neighborhood, which bordered the railroad tracks 459 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:48,200 Speaker 1: between West Haywood Street and the Smith Bridge. One evening 460 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,400 Speaker 1: I went home to eat supper with one of my friends. 461 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:55,400 Speaker 1: It was the winter of nineteen fifty eight. My friends 462 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 1: family was poor, so the meal consisted of pento beans, 463 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 1: fried potatoes, and corn bread. It began to snow as 464 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,840 Speaker 1: we sat down to eat, and we watched the snow 465 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:10,680 Speaker 1: as we sat at the table. The kitchen windows were 466 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:14,040 Speaker 1: frosted a bit, but we could see the snow pouring down. 467 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:19,280 Speaker 1: Halfway through the mill, a knock came at the back door. 468 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,920 Speaker 1: It was indeed a hobo, stopping to ask for a 469 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:28,560 Speaker 1: piece of bread and a drink of water. The ragged 470 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:32,600 Speaker 1: stranger was invited in and brought to the table to 471 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:37,000 Speaker 1: eat with us. His plate was filled and his cup 472 00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 1: poured full of steaming coffee. The man's hands wrapped around 473 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,480 Speaker 1: the hot cup and he held it to absorb the heat. 474 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 1: I noticed his fingers sticking through the tips of the 475 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:54,240 Speaker 1: gloves he wore. He ate as if he had not 476 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:59,120 Speaker 1: eaten in several days, and after finishing, he warmed himself 477 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,920 Speaker 1: by the stove. I noticed rags wrapped around his feet 478 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,760 Speaker 1: and rope tied to hold them on. He had barely 479 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:10,280 Speaker 1: spoken during the mill, but appeared to be at peace. 480 00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,760 Speaker 1: After he grew warm by the fire, he looked around 481 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:18,600 Speaker 1: at all of us and said it's time to go now, 482 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:24,880 Speaker 1: Thanks and God bless you all. He went out the 483 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:29,000 Speaker 1: back door, down the steps to the yard, and disappeared. 484 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:32,840 Speaker 1: We walked out onto the porch and looked down at 485 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:36,880 Speaker 1: the yard to see which way he went. There were 486 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:43,200 Speaker 1: no footprints in the snow. The surface was smooth and 487 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:48,080 Speaker 1: glistening in the moonlight. For all the rest of my life, 488 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:51,200 Speaker 1: I have wondered about this incident. Who was this stranger? 489 00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:55,160 Speaker 1: What was the purpose of his visit? Perhaps I will 490 00:34:55,200 --> 00:35:00,440 Speaker 1: never know, But I have always believed in angels since 491 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:07,320 Speaker 1: that night. Huh, I bet you know. It is funny 492 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:13,120 Speaker 1: how in the Bible when people encounter angels, they don't 493 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:17,200 Speaker 1: know they're talking to an angel. Often the angel just 494 00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,640 Speaker 1: looks like a normal person. Uh. There are were some 495 00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,600 Speaker 1: points in the Bible where an angel says, yeah, I'm 496 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:27,000 Speaker 1: an angel, and the guy says, yeah, right, prove it 497 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,800 Speaker 1: to me, and the angel has to do some magic 498 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 1: tricks to prove he's an angel. I guess that's why 499 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:38,040 Speaker 1: they say you better be careful when you're talking to somebody. 500 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,440 Speaker 1: You never know. You never know when you might actually 501 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:44,040 Speaker 1: be talking to an angel, and you better treat them nice. 502 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:50,600 Speaker 1: Here's a story by Sarah go Forth. She sent this 503 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:54,760 Speaker 1: to me about an experience that she had also in Asheville, 504 00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:59,560 Speaker 1: North Carolina. The Big Old Classic cemetery in Asheville is 505 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:03,040 Speaker 1: called Riverside Cemetery. That's where Thomas Wolfe is buried, and 506 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:08,120 Speaker 1: a lot of famous people. She wrote, in Riverside Cemetery 507 00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:11,920 Speaker 1: in Asheville, North Carolina, you will find a marker for 508 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:16,879 Speaker 1: Barkley bart Or, so she's giving us a name here, 509 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:20,600 Speaker 1: the name of a man named Barkley or nicknamed Bart 510 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:29,200 Speaker 1: Barkley bart Or, dated nineteen thirteen, not too far away. 511 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,840 Speaker 1: You'll also find a marker for James go Forth, my father. 512 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,839 Speaker 1: Both Bart and my dad were working for and with 513 00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:42,320 Speaker 1: John Rumball and his attempt to establish an automobile legacy 514 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:47,480 Speaker 1: in Asheville. The building in which they worked was on Broadway, 515 00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:52,319 Speaker 1: opposite the Masonic Temple. In nineteen thirteen, I was an 516 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,719 Speaker 1: only child. We were living at sixty three A A 517 00:36:55,840 --> 00:37:00,560 Speaker 1: Street and attended church at Ora Street Presbyterian Church right 518 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:05,280 Speaker 1: in sight of our house. Or had a small child, Tommy, 519 00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:10,360 Speaker 1: about my age. When the building on Broadway was finished, 520 00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:14,440 Speaker 1: I recall going there to see it. There was a 521 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,120 Speaker 1: freight elevator used to get cars to the show room 522 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:21,440 Speaker 1: on the street for the street floor level. It was 523 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,560 Speaker 1: also used to transport supplies and such that were delivered. 524 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:30,520 Speaker 1: One day, machinery was being installed. Embart and Jim my dad. 525 00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,960 Speaker 1: We're with a company representative installing a machine operated by 526 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:40,439 Speaker 1: a high compression force. They needed a special tool, which 527 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,279 Speaker 1: was on another floor. Well. Jim turned and crossed the 528 00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:46,760 Speaker 1: building to use the steps when there was a huge explosion. 529 00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,080 Speaker 1: Dan said, he whirled around and returned to the scene 530 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:57,799 Speaker 1: of the accident. Or was seriously injured but conscious. He 531 00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,760 Speaker 1: asked my dad to quote hit him in the head 532 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:06,440 Speaker 1: with a hammer end quote. Then he died as my 533 00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:12,440 Speaker 1: dad held him. The company representative was blinded and later died. 534 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:22,560 Speaker 1: Or was seriously injured but conscious. Um no, I'm sorry anyway, 535 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,560 Speaker 1: she says. The building, which was later to be used 536 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,920 Speaker 1: by Morgan Wholesale, was also damaged. Dad said a metal 537 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:33,440 Speaker 1: plate from the machine was blown through two inside walls 538 00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,640 Speaker 1: across Broadway and was later found in a vacant lot 539 00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:42,840 Speaker 1: by the Masonic temple at our house. After the terrible accident, 540 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:47,120 Speaker 1: strange things began happening. One Sunday evening, my parents wondered 541 00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,880 Speaker 1: about leaving the porch light on when we went to church. 542 00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,920 Speaker 1: The light was not on, and as we left church, however, 543 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:57,120 Speaker 1: we could see that the light had somehow turned on. Indeed, 544 00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:02,920 Speaker 1: sometime later, Dad said that he was awakened by strange sounds. 545 00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,200 Speaker 1: One night, he heard the sound of water running. He 546 00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:08,560 Speaker 1: checked the bath on the second floor to find that 547 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:12,319 Speaker 1: everything was fine. He then realized that the sound was 548 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:16,120 Speaker 1: coming from the kitchen. In the kitchen downstairs, he found 549 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:21,680 Speaker 1: the falsett wide open. Later, a door between the living 550 00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:25,399 Speaker 1: area and dining room had mysteriously locked with no key. 551 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,520 Speaker 1: We never found out exactly what caused such strange experiences, 552 00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,680 Speaker 1: but for the rest of his life, my dad insisted 553 00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:42,200 Speaker 1: that Bart was desperately trying to tell him something and 554 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:46,320 Speaker 1: that's the end of that story. So you see, folks, 555 00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:51,440 Speaker 1: you might say, oh, well, that was unsatisfying because we 556 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,360 Speaker 1: have this tendency to want to have a nice you know, 557 00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,919 Speaker 1: bo wrapped around the end of the story. But that's 558 00:39:56,920 --> 00:40:04,919 Speaker 1: just not how reality works. This is a weird one, 559 00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:09,840 Speaker 1: my okay. This is by Marie Murray Guy, also from Asheville. 560 00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:13,279 Speaker 1: She says the following story took place in World War 561 00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:18,000 Speaker 1: two England. Today, I have been thinking of my father's 562 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:23,800 Speaker 1: little man. Dad was very practical in a lot of ways. 563 00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,839 Speaker 1: For instance, when the air raid sirens sounded to warn 564 00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:30,279 Speaker 1: us of an air raid while we were grabbing our blankets, 565 00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:34,480 Speaker 1: important papers, a thermos, flask of tea, items we always 566 00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,800 Speaker 1: had ready each night, and rushing off to the nearest 567 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:41,520 Speaker 1: air raid shelter. Dad would say, stay in bed, get 568 00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:45,279 Speaker 1: some sleep. If it's a direct hit, no matter where 569 00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:48,960 Speaker 1: you are, you've had it, and then closing the door 570 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,880 Speaker 1: after us, he would go off to bed. Twice we 571 00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,360 Speaker 1: had near missus and he was thrown out of bed, 572 00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,600 Speaker 1: but he climbed back in and settled down to sleep again. 573 00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:03,040 Speaker 1: Because the German bombers had started dropping small magnesium firebombs, 574 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,960 Speaker 1: Mother and I slept downstairs, but when the sirens sounded 575 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:11,960 Speaker 1: we always went to the shelters. The night my father 576 00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:15,759 Speaker 1: first saw his quote, little man, I was in bed 577 00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:19,600 Speaker 1: downstairs with a bad case of the flu. Mother was 578 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,560 Speaker 1: on war work and left to catch her bus at 579 00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:25,840 Speaker 1: ten minutes to ten for the night shift. Dad stood 580 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,239 Speaker 1: at the front door, watching mother until she was out 581 00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:30,880 Speaker 1: of sight. He was just about to come into the 582 00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:35,160 Speaker 1: house when he said quote. A very small man about 583 00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,799 Speaker 1: two ft high waddled past him and went to our 584 00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:42,239 Speaker 1: neighbors next door. The little man knocked on the door 585 00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:46,640 Speaker 1: and waited. During this time, Dad took stock of the 586 00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:51,279 Speaker 1: stranger's appearance. When we come back from this break, I 587 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:55,479 Speaker 1: will tell you about that appearance. 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He wore typical Tyrolean clothing, 616 00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:19,120 Speaker 1: short pants, green short sleeve shirt, suspenders, and a little 617 00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,560 Speaker 1: hat with a feather on the side. And when there 618 00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,680 Speaker 1: was no answer to the little fellow's knock, Dad called 619 00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:29,799 Speaker 1: out to him, there is no one home right now. 620 00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:33,439 Speaker 1: They both work and do not get home until after 621 00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:37,520 Speaker 1: eleven o'clock. At this the little man came to the door, 622 00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,960 Speaker 1: pushed his way past my father and entered the house. 623 00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:46,040 Speaker 1: Dad came in all excited, saying, Hey, here, what's you doing. 624 00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:49,040 Speaker 1: Where's he gone? He looked at me and said, where's 625 00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:53,480 Speaker 1: he gone? I said, sitting up in bed, Where's who gone? 626 00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:57,040 Speaker 1: Well Dad had not been to his favorite pub and 627 00:44:57,120 --> 00:44:59,680 Speaker 1: had nothing but a cup of tea, so I knew 628 00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:02,839 Speaker 1: that he said he'd seen a little man. He had 629 00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:09,240 Speaker 1: seen something. He was not interested in dreams, omens, spiritualism, signs, 630 00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:11,960 Speaker 1: et cetera. And whenever an old aunt came and we 631 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,919 Speaker 1: asked her to read our teacup, he always said, I'm 632 00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:20,160 Speaker 1: surprised at you. Dad searched the house but found no one, 633 00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:24,040 Speaker 1: no signs of a little man. Finally he gave up, 634 00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:28,520 Speaker 1: scratched his head, and sat down in his chair. Barely 635 00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:30,800 Speaker 1: five minutes later, there was a knock at the door, 636 00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:34,759 Speaker 1: Mr Ainsworth. A voice called out, and Dad went to 637 00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:39,480 Speaker 1: the door. I'm sorry, the voice continued, but your wife 638 00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:43,120 Speaker 1: has had an accident. She fell and has broken her foot. 639 00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,799 Speaker 1: She missed the bus and decided to walk, but fell 640 00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:50,600 Speaker 1: as she crossed the field. She was lucky a man 641 00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:54,000 Speaker 1: also missed the bus and found her. She's been taken 642 00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:58,640 Speaker 1: to the hospital and will be home sometime later. To 643 00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:00,520 Speaker 1: call her happened to me a man and who knew 644 00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,880 Speaker 1: us and had volunteered to call and give us the news. 645 00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:08,319 Speaker 1: The hospital was full mostly with air raid victims. So 646 00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:11,759 Speaker 1: mother was brought home by ambulance about two hours later. 647 00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,279 Speaker 1: There were two of us in bed, with Dad as 648 00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:20,880 Speaker 1: our nurse. The second time the mysterious little man appeared 649 00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:23,960 Speaker 1: was just three days later. Dad was in the toilet 650 00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:27,279 Speaker 1: outside and the door was suddenly pushed open, and there 651 00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:31,920 Speaker 1: stood the little man again. He looked up at Dad, 652 00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:36,520 Speaker 1: turned and then disappeared from sight. Dad hurried into the 653 00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:38,800 Speaker 1: house and stood at the foot of our bed, scratching 654 00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:41,240 Speaker 1: his head as he always did when he was puzzled. 655 00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,120 Speaker 1: We could tell something was wrong, and we waited for 656 00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:48,600 Speaker 1: him to speak. I've seen that little fellow again, he said, 657 00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:52,560 Speaker 1: and then proceeded to tell us what had transpired. Well, 658 00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,000 Speaker 1: this was just too much for mother and me, and 659 00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:59,560 Speaker 1: we burst out laughing. Dad was a little bit irritated 660 00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,920 Speaker 1: at our laughter, and he said, now I know that 661 00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:05,919 Speaker 1: I have just seen that little man again, so you 662 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:09,160 Speaker 1: just laugh all you want to. And we looked at him, 663 00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:13,839 Speaker 1: and I think we both believed him. The next day 664 00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:18,719 Speaker 1: there was a telegram from the West African Frontier Force Headquarters, 665 00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:27,080 Speaker 1: regret Sergeant Smith died this morning. Sergeant Smith was my husband. 666 00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:33,719 Speaker 1: His mother was never the same after she heard the news, 667 00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:36,040 Speaker 1: and six months later she died at the age of 668 00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,920 Speaker 1: and three days before she died, Dad saw his little 669 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:44,359 Speaker 1: Man for the third and last time. Deep down, I 670 00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:47,960 Speaker 1: believe in the little Man knowing my no nonsense father, 671 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:51,759 Speaker 1: and because that, I have had strange things happen in 672 00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:59,399 Speaker 1: my life. Two. What do you make of that? Huh? 673 00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:02,520 Speaker 1: I could maybe do a whole podcast about the significance 674 00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:08,160 Speaker 1: of little people has something to do with fate. I 675 00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:14,400 Speaker 1: suppose here's a story called a fateful Encounter John Owen 676 00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:17,920 Speaker 1: by Fairview, North Carolina. As close as I can remember, 677 00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:20,920 Speaker 1: it was the fall of nineteen seventy three or nineteen 678 00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:24,200 Speaker 1: seventy four. I was working second shift and had gotten 679 00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:27,160 Speaker 1: off at one o'clock. As I was coming home on 680 00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:29,920 Speaker 1: garen Creek Road and Fairview, I had a flat tire, 681 00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:33,640 Speaker 1: and halfway through changing the tire, my flashlight went out. 682 00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:37,279 Speaker 1: After exhausting the gas from my cigarette lighter, I gave 683 00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:40,200 Speaker 1: up and decided to start walking. There was little or 684 00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,400 Speaker 1: no traffic on the road at that time of morning. 685 00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:45,840 Speaker 1: By then, it was probably about two thirty in the morning. 686 00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:48,560 Speaker 1: It was a dark night and there was only enough 687 00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:50,840 Speaker 1: light to make out the outline of the tree tops. 688 00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:54,359 Speaker 1: I was only about four miles from home, and as 689 00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:56,799 Speaker 1: I walked along, I could see a dim outline of 690 00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:00,640 Speaker 1: the road except the areas where it was shaded by tree. 691 00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:03,920 Speaker 1: I would walk along on the pavement and I felt 692 00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,959 Speaker 1: the grass and weeds brushing my ankles, and I knew 693 00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:10,839 Speaker 1: I was near the edge of the road. About halfway home. 694 00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:13,440 Speaker 1: I was in one of those pitch black areas at 695 00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:16,680 Speaker 1: the foot of the mountain. I coaxed one last light 696 00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:20,120 Speaker 1: from my lighter as my eyes readjusted to the darkness, 697 00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:26,320 Speaker 1: and then suddenly there she was. It was a yellowish blue, 698 00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:30,640 Speaker 1: glowing figure of a woman. She was wearing what appeared 699 00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:33,520 Speaker 1: to be an old fashioned style full length dress with 700 00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:38,440 Speaker 1: puffy sleeves. It tattered to rags and strips below her waist, 701 00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:41,440 Speaker 1: and none of her body was visible below the dress. 702 00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:45,920 Speaker 1: Her image floated a few feet above the ground. She 703 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,600 Speaker 1: appeared to be a young woman with long, straight hair. 704 00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,919 Speaker 1: I froze in my tracks, having no idea what to do. 705 00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:56,120 Speaker 1: After a few seconds, I asked her who she was 706 00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:59,480 Speaker 1: and what she wanted. It was a dead, calm night 707 00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:03,200 Speaker 1: with no reads it all. Her dress, however, moved back 708 00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:06,560 Speaker 1: and forth as if it was blowing in the breeze again. 709 00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:09,440 Speaker 1: I asked her who she was and told her I 710 00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:13,200 Speaker 1: was trying to get home. She pointed in the direction 711 00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:16,279 Speaker 1: from which I had come. I could hear nothing, but 712 00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:21,439 Speaker 1: her lips moved, telling me to go back. I wasn't 713 00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:25,520 Speaker 1: going to argue. Scared silly, I took a few steps back, 714 00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:29,160 Speaker 1: turned around, took a few more steps, and then glanced back, 715 00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:33,920 Speaker 1: and when I turned and looked, she was gone. I 716 00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:36,799 Speaker 1: started walking back towards my car, and after a few 717 00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:40,000 Speaker 1: minutes a man and his wife drove by and stopped. 718 00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:43,319 Speaker 1: They picked me up, and as we pulled off, I 719 00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:46,279 Speaker 1: started telling them what had happened. As I talked, I 720 00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:48,799 Speaker 1: realized that they must have thought I was either on 721 00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:53,680 Speaker 1: drugs or an escape ee from an asylum. His wife 722 00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:57,040 Speaker 1: had scooted almost onto her husband, to the point that 723 00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:00,719 Speaker 1: there was almost room for another person between us on 724 00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:05,080 Speaker 1: the truck seat. Despite the fact that they were scared 725 00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:07,640 Speaker 1: of me, they stopped and let me out at my car, 726 00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:11,000 Speaker 1: where they shine their headlights so I could finish changing 727 00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:15,239 Speaker 1: the tire. When I at last started to drive home, 728 00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:17,759 Speaker 1: I stopped when I got to the spot where I 729 00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:20,680 Speaker 1: had seen the woman. I got out of my car 730 00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:24,520 Speaker 1: and I asked into the air once again, who are you? 731 00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:31,040 Speaker 1: Why do you want? I heard or saw nothing. Then 732 00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:33,279 Speaker 1: a few feet up the road, my eye caught the 733 00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:35,799 Speaker 1: sight of something lying on the side of the road. 734 00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:41,399 Speaker 1: I pulled my car closer. They're lying on the edge 735 00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:45,640 Speaker 1: of the road was a rattlesnake that had been run over. 736 00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:53,160 Speaker 1: Inches away. Was it's coiled up mate, right where I 737 00:51:53,200 --> 00:52:04,160 Speaker 1: would have been walking. Yeah, gulp, I think I can 738 00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:10,040 Speaker 1: squeeze in one more for you. Weaver Donaldson from Canton, 739 00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:13,880 Speaker 1: North Carolina and March of nineteen fifty eight, I was 740 00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:17,880 Speaker 1: in the Armed Forces stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky. I 741 00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:19,879 Speaker 1: had been there for three weeks and I was given 742 00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:23,600 Speaker 1: a weekend pass. I and a friend from my hometown 743 00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:27,280 Speaker 1: took the bus home on a Friday night. On Sunday, 744 00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:30,120 Speaker 1: we were returning to base in my personal vehicle, a 745 00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:33,719 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty one Ford Coupe. And those days, the law 746 00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:36,239 Speaker 1: enforcement was not as it is today, And as the 747 00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:40,080 Speaker 1: saying goes, I had the hammer down. The time was 748 00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:43,160 Speaker 1: just past midnight and my friend had gone to sleep. 749 00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:46,560 Speaker 1: It was a lovely night. The moon was full, the 750 00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:49,200 Speaker 1: heavens were filled with stars and there was not a 751 00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:53,160 Speaker 1: cloud to be seen. It was my first time driving 752 00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:57,040 Speaker 1: that highway and I had just passed through Corbin, Kentucky. 753 00:52:57,080 --> 00:52:59,799 Speaker 1: I went into what seemed to be a long straightaway, 754 00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:04,000 Speaker 1: and again I put the pedal to the metal. Then, 755 00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:09,680 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, a flash of lightning came from nowhere, 756 00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:13,560 Speaker 1: which I thought hit the top of the car. I 757 00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:18,160 Speaker 1: slammed on the brakes and stopped. Being scared, I got 758 00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:22,040 Speaker 1: out of the vehicle to discover that I was entering 759 00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:27,359 Speaker 1: into a sharp left curve. I walked just a few 760 00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:31,280 Speaker 1: feet ahead to find a massive ravine of such depth 761 00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:35,919 Speaker 1: that I could not see the bottom. There was no 762 00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:42,480 Speaker 1: guard rail. Neither my friend nor I would have survived 763 00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:46,600 Speaker 1: the crash had it not been for the warning of 764 00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:52,279 Speaker 1: a lightning bolt. Don't these kind of give you the 765 00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:58,520 Speaker 1: goose bumps? What does it mean? I guess it means 766 00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:03,080 Speaker 1: that all these stories mean we're not alone. Sometimes you 767 00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:06,839 Speaker 1: see these things, they freak you out there, creepy, they're spooky. 768 00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:14,000 Speaker 1: Sometimes they reassure you and they bring you peace. But 769 00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:21,040 Speaker 1: whatever they are, however we perceive them, these are indications 770 00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:25,480 Speaker 1: that there's something very, very special. About the realm we're 771 00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:32,480 Speaker 1: living in this mysterious paranormal universe, and if you pay attention, 772 00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:35,360 Speaker 1: if you open your eyes and you open your mind, 773 00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:38,800 Speaker 1: you might be surprised how many things are swirling around 774 00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:42,439 Speaker 1: you to help you understand in some small way what's 775 00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:46,440 Speaker 1: going on and to help guide you through this experience 776 00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:51,279 Speaker 1: called life. Regardless of how we explain these things, or 777 00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:56,120 Speaker 1: just except we can't explain these things, I think that 778 00:54:56,160 --> 00:55:01,080 Speaker 1: you can now understand pretty clearly why that stuff like 779 00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:08,439 Speaker 1: this inspired me to continue pursuing paranormal investigation, to dig 780 00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:13,040 Speaker 1: into the mysterious and the wondrous. And that's one reason, 781 00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:16,840 Speaker 1: thanks to this book, that I'm such a curious person. 782 00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:22,400 Speaker 1: That's it for this edition of the show. Follow me 783 00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:26,800 Speaker 1: on Twitter at Joshua P. Warren. Plus visit Joshua P. 784 00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:29,440 Speaker 1: Warren dot com to sign up for my free e 785 00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:34,160 Speaker 1: newsletter to receive a free instant gift, and check out 786 00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:37,880 Speaker 1: the cool Stuff and the Curiosity Shop all at Joshua P. 787 00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:40,880 Speaker 1: Warren dot com. I have a fun one lined up 788 00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:44,480 Speaker 1: for you next time, I promise, so please tell all 789 00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:48,280 Speaker 1: your friends to subscribe to this show and to always 790 00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:53,480 Speaker 1: remember the Golden Rule. Thank you for listening. Thank you 791 00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:57,239 Speaker 1: for your interest in support, Thank you for staying curious, 792 00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:02,359 Speaker 1: and I We'll talk to you again soon. 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